Uwontlikemyopinion Jake Cullen (Bill Kerr) watches a rhino-sized Razorback kill his grandson. Two years pass, Beth Winters (Judy Morris) investigates a factory that kills wildlife. The Baker brothers attack her in the night, but the "Moby Dick" boar scares them away and murders (the pig's tusk pierces her groin) Betty. Queue her fiancee Carl (Gregory Harrison) to save the day.Tasteless first act manages to improve in second and third act, but loses all credibility. Over-stylized film sustains strong atmosphere and unusual lighting. The best sequence consists of Carl hallucinating through the desert.Other than that, "Razorback" is ludicrous, offensive, clumsy, and a dumb Australian exploitation film. I feel no urgency for the characters because when anybody speaks I wish they would of stayed quiet. The Baker brothers make continuous snorting and goat noises. Carl is on the verge of being catatonic. Jake, the only character with motivation, needs a better movie. The fast paced editing creates moments of unintentional laughter (such as the scene when Jake shoots the Razorback). Nobody escapes unscathed in this film.

JLRVancouver "Razorback" is a brutal, strikingly filmed, Australian entry in the 'natural horror' canon that features an immense razorback boar terrorizing the outback. The film opens with the titular creature tearing though the home of Jake Cullen (Bill Kerr) and carrying off his grandson. No one believes Cullen, but with insufficient evidence to prove that he killed the child, he is released and begins a vendetta against the wild pigs. Later, while searching for his wife (an American animal-rights activist that disappeared while investigating kangaroo hunting), Carl Winter (Gregory Harrison) comes face to face with the tusked monster. The film is not for the faint-hearted: there are a number of scenes in a dilapidated pet-food factory full of rats and kangaroo corpses that is run by two extremely loathsome characters, a number of grotesque killings, lots of scenes of mud, blood and decay, and endless death motifs. The film has a similar aesthetic to 1981's "Mad Max 2" (Dean Semler was cinematographer on both films), including bizarre characters, mechano-punk vehicles, and glorious shots of the stark but beautiful Australian desert. There is also an excellent surreal dream sequence as a delusional and hallucinating Carl, abandoned to die in the desert, struggles to stay alive. Not to everyone's taste but, all in all, an entertainingly grim horror yarn with a solid (if simple) story, a good script, great visuals, and a few surprises.

milosprole9 I just watched Australian film called Razorback (1984) and I was surprised how much I enjoyed watching this movie. The opening scene is one of the most beautifully shot scenes in the 80's. The cinematography is all that truly remarkable and the editing is excellent. It's like Jaws, but with a giant killer pig. If they ever re-make to this movie, they will obviously use a CGI wild boar. In the fact that model razorback was built at a cost of $250 thousand and is seen for only a few minutes, but the movie still made me interesting watching to the end. This was pretty awesome Australian film and great entertainment with some breathtaking photography. I'd give it a 8.5 out of 10.

MisterWhiplash This movie shouldn't totally work as well as it does. It's pretty clearly a Jaws rip-off (or homage if you will) as it's about a giant animal that attacks people - and a much bigger animal than the others around it, distinct that way - and how three people go after it... well, at first anyway. It should be just an homage, but Russell Mulcahy, who later did Highlander, brings something else to the table, which is unadulterated weirdness. The protagonist is a man who loses his cinematographer girlfriend to the Razorback monster and decides to go after it, with (at first) some help from some ruff-house outback folk who strand him in the Australian wilderness until he finds some help. The film's weirdness comes from tone. Some of the action is somewhat standard, as is a climax that takes place in a factory with lots of smoke-machine-made fog and chains, but it's also got camera-work that is very unusual, compositions that take into account the bizarreness of the Outback and what this outsider-guy is up against, and occasionally it gets trippy. It should be distracting, but in reality it helps to heighten the paranoia and tension: you can't trust most of the characters in this film, mainly cause they're just bad psychopathic backwoods-Aussie folk, and, of course, that big boar could be anywhere.It certainly still feels dated being from the 80's (again, lots of SMOKE and FOG, not a bad thing just what it is), but that's part of its charm when it occurs. When it gets to being exciting Mulcahy and writer Everett DeRoche (veteran of many Aussie-exploitation movies) ramp up both the suspense and the black-humor; there's a scene where a fat guy is sitting at home watching his TV, the razorback hooked up to part of the house, and when he runs away he takes half of the house (and the TV) with him! That and a few requisite Aiustralian jokes get the job done.All in all this is a surprise; a tightly constructed, surreal horror- action film with the overtones of Jaws but a director with something to say and (at the time) something to prove as a genre-maker. If it was on late-night TV I would watch it in a heart-beat.